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Witness History Episodes

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    A Heroine of Burundi's Civil War

    In 1993, Marguerite Barankitse came to symbolise hope for peace in Burundi's civil war

  2. Beirut Barracks Bombing

    In 1983, hundreds died in suicide attacks on American and French bases in Lebanon

  3. Spying for the Stasi

    The secret life of Sascha Anderson, an avant-garde poet who informed for the Stasi

  4. The Opening of Sydney Opera House

    In 1973 Sydney Opera House finally opened its doors to the public, 10 years late

  5. The Death of Grenada's Revolution

    In October 1983 Grenada's leftist prime minister was killed. Six days later the US invaded

  6. Death of Grenada's Revolution

    The day Maurice Bishop leader of Grenada was killed. Six days later the US invaded

  7. The Scottsboro Boys: A Miscarriage of Justice in the US

    In 1931, nine black teenagers were convicted of raping two white girls in Alabama.

  8. Walter Sisulu is Released

    In October 1989, anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu was freed from jail after 26 years.

  9. The Brighton Hotel Bombing

    The day Margaret Thatcher survived a bomb attack in October 1984

  10. Escape from Sobibor Death Camp

    Hundreds of Jewish slave labourers staged a revolt in a Nazi death camp in October 1943

  11. Thomas Sankara African Revolutionary

    When one of Africa's most celebrated leaders was killed in a coup in Burkina Faso

  12. Josephine Baker - Black American Superstar

    In 1925 a young black American dancer became an overnight sensation in Paris

  13. Tunnel Under the Berlin Wall

    In October 1964 a group of students helped 57 people escape from East Germany

  14. Danish Jews Escape the Holocaust

    During WWII, most of the Jews in Denmark evaded Nazi plans to send them to death camps

  15. The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya

    The outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in October 2006

  16. The Betty Ford Center

    How a First Lady's struggle with drugs led to the founding of a world famous rehab clinic

  17. Israel's Nuclear Secrets

    In October 1986, Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel's secret nuclear weapons programme

  18. Australia's Asylum Stand-off

    In 2001, Australia refused entry to more than 400 refugees aboard a Norwegian freight ship

  19. Mao's American Comrade

    Mao declares the formation of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949

  20. Appeasement

    In September 1938, Neville Chamberlain tried to negotiate with Hitler over Czechoslovakia.

  21. Re-education in China

    In China 're-education' is still used as a form of punishment - hear one man's story.

  22. The Kinsey Report into Female Sexuality

    Sex, 60 years ago: The Kinsey Report revealed all in 1953

  23. Siege of Vukovar

    In 1991 the Yugoslav army pounded the Croatian town of Vukova for 87 days

  24. The Death of Paquirri

    The fatal goring of the legendary bullfighter Francisco Rivera Pérez in September 1984

  25. Baywatch

    Executive producer Michael Berk on the birth of a global hit TV show in September 1989

  26. Re-education in Communist China

    Hear from a British man who spent five years being 're-educated' in China in the 1950s

  27. Duke Ellington Plays Kabul

    In September 1963, the jazz legend gave a concert in the Afghan capital.

  28. Iraqi Chemical Attacks

    In 1988 the Reagan administration decided not to punish Iraq for gassing Kurds in Halabja

  29. Duke Ellington Plays Afghanistan

    The jazz legend Duke Ellington played at a concert in Kabul In September 1963

  30. Anthrax Attacks

    In Sept 2001 letters were sent to journalists containing the biological agent Anthrax

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